This article explores the lived experience of young women navigating and surviving domestic and family violence (DFV) and homelessness. Promoting the voices of young women through in-depth interviews, this article considers their story of violence, abuse, homelessness, and sense of safety. Such stories enable reflection on the ability of services to provide personal, material, emotional, and cultural safety in a way that recognizes the intersecting impact of trauma before, during, and after experiences of DFV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFErosive lichen planus is a chronic auto-inflammatory disease which affects the stratified squamous epithelia resulting in painful ulcerations of both the skin and mucosal surfaces, and has a known malignant potential. Management of erosive lichen planus has proven to be difficult; however, recent reports of treatment with Janus kinase inhibitors such as Upadacitinib, are encouraging. This report outlines the third reported case of erosive lichen planus to be successfully treated with Upadacitinib in a 70-year-old woman with treatment-resistant disease.
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December 2021
Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (CFS/FMS) affect 2.1% of the world's population and ~10-25% of people who have had COVID-19. Previous clinical data suggested that a unique (C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this study was to identify psychological factors associated with pain intensity and disability following distal radius fracture.
Methods: We prospectively followed 216 adult patients with distal radius fracture for 9 months. Demographics, injury and treatment details, and psychological measures (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Score [HADS], Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian, Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia, Illness Perception Questionnaire Brief [IPQB], General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Recovery Locus of Control [RLOC]) were collected at enrollment.